HRW wrote that human rights in Malaysia "plummeted" in 2015, "with increased harassment and persecution of human rights defenders, activists, political opposition figures, and journalists".
Where the judiciary remains either directly or indirectly involved in the continued persecution of human rights defenders and others, due process and fair trial rights cannot effectively materialize.
With the present political turmoil in Hong Kong and the continued persecution of human rights activists in China, I think today is not a day for celebrations but rather a day of sadness," said Oscar Lai, a spokesman for the student group Scholarism.
That smacks, says Jerome Cohen, Mr Ma's former law professor, now at New York University, of the persecution of human-rights lawyers in China.Drawing the right conclusionsWhat conclusions you draw about the future rule of law in Taiwan depend on whether you believe Mr Chen' s trial was politically motivated or not.
It is a tale of greed, hubris, empire and religious persecution; also of human civilisation, prodigious wealth, architectural glory and religious tolerance.
Baghat listed the litany of human-rights abuses, military trials, the harassment of bloggers and journalists, the interference of state and private media, the persecution of the human rights community (an investigation has been opened into the foreign funding of N.G.O.s in Egypt; he was expecting a legal summons imminently before the Square blew up again).
Najia Bounaim, deputy campaigns director at Amnesty International's Tunis office, said the arrest was "the latest chilling example of the Egyptian authorities' systematic persecution of independent human rights defenders".
Yet the novel regularly depicts police officers gorging themselves on the fruit: "The officers' lack of constraint in engulfing the fruit parallels the remorseless persecution of the human race" under Nicolae Ceauşescu.
How can anyone with any sense of integrity defend the expressions of "free speech" that were used to engender prejudice that led to the demonization and then persecution of innocent human beings?
I refuse to comply with rules, regulations, or restrictions that reinforce the discrimination, persecution, and exploitation of human beings.
The draft resolution condemns the "systematic" human rights violations by the Assad government, including "arbitrary executions, excessive use of force and killing and persecution of protesters and human rights defenders, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances, torture and ill-treatment of detainees, including children".
